My wife and I climbed Muizenburg Crag Direct, yesterday, and loved every minute of it... well... except for the "friable" rock at the very top which was, in all honesty, kak. If anyone asked us for a route around that grade, it would be high on our list of suggestions.

We were planning to go climb Eclipse, this coming weekend, but the man to whom we promised the honoured position of "third" has asked us to postpone.

Instead, we're thinking of heading to Tafelberg and would be looking for great, easy routes to climb.

Are there any? Suggestions?

We want to make a weekend of it and our tent needs an outing. Tafelberg looks like a good destination - particularly if we can walk in, climb a route, camp overnight, climb another route and then walk out. (Presumably, we would enter from the Welbedacht Forest Station.)

You only need a CN permit which you can get from Driehoek, Algeria or Dwarsrivier. Think it is in the region of R70ppd which is ridiculous considering that you are sleeping in a cave...

The cave is in the Spout, and is very obvious from the neck at the top of the scree slope leading up to Tafelberg. I've see the Woozel aid climbing the crack with etriers and Aliens so make sure you hang your gear as far up as possible

We've been living in a boring place where all the climbs were bolted and the instruction "follow the obvious line" was easily understood: connect the dots.

Overnight permits from CNC cost R 90.00 per person per night - excluding the "conservation fee" of R 60.00 that you must pay if you don't carry a wild-card. It is ridiculous! That's 50% MORE than the new prices at De Bos and you have to dig a hole should you need a loo!

Personally, I am much more inclined to camp in the middle of nowhere than in a noisy site in a town. Given the choice, I would choose to dig a hole rather than put up with obnoxious neighbours, cell-phone music and poor parking skills. I merely wish that the "middle of nowhere" cost less.

We don't actually have the Tafelberg guide and probably won't buy one since we're off to the mud island in three months but we're planning to take some friends of ours on a hike in the area and one of our nights will be at the Spout cave, hence the question.

walk clockwise around the spout maintaining roughly the same elevation as the cave. Its Quite far around, roughly just past the opposite side. This is from memory, I was last there a good long while back! It is a fairly obvious route. The drip itself is obvious, you won't miss it.